This weekend I took my daughter and granddaughter to see the sculpture at Deep in The Heart Art Foundry. Many don’t know that I have spent six years of my life creating this art. The first years were spent formulating the idea and trying to sell it to my client. My granddaughter is five. Which means she grew up with the sculpture. Pouring over photographs I can see just how apparent that is.
My granddaughter has grown up with the creation of this sculpture.Issa looks for the hidden things. It is my first time seeing the interaction of a child with my art. It is just what I was after.Issa helps out in the studio as we check the height of a small stump that will sit in front of the story book dedication plaque. A mouse will sit on a leaf at the height of her hand. My smallest intern.
Tea Party with my good friend David Morris who posed for the body of the Mad HatterIssa with a 3D print of the March Hare.CNC mill of the March HareIssa at the groundbreaking of Evelyn’s Park. I could not announce the sculpture was to go there because the client had not signed the contract.
Please pardon our mess. We have documented the entire process of creating the Alice In Wonderland Sculpture on Facebook at Finding Alice Sculpture, but we are slowly transferring all content here. It will make it easier to search. Thank you for your patience.
Sculptor Bridgette Mongeon has hidden 150 things in her sculpture titled “Move One Place On.” If you would like a free printable Detective book to document your findings, you can print one out by following this link. How do you find them? Reading this blog and the Facebook page will give you lots of hints. The artist will also begin to reveal the 150 hidden things through videos once the sculpture is placed. There are four things you must know when looking for the things.
#_____What is it?
#_____Where is it? ( You must visit the park, or the artist will be showing some of them in up and coming videos. )
#_____Where is it in the story?
#_____Special significance to sculptor/author/illustrator?
Get out your Alice in Wonderland books or better yet, purchase the Annotated Alice. It is what the artist used to figure out what to hide. Now that the Facebook page is being transferred to this blog you can search the posts by the category 150 Hidden things.
Individuals and families can use the free printable to document their findings of the 150 hidden things.
If you are in the Bastrop, Texas area on Friday the 23rd, be sure to stop in at the Deep In The Heart Art Foundry Open House. Alice and her friends are complete and it offers a sneak peek.
